Baby Boomer

[GlazeyLady]

I also was unable to finish. 

YA moved out - 16 x 5 = 80
YA still in - 4 x 3 = 12
Teen - 1 x 2 = 2
Child - 1 x 1 = 1

Total = 95

This was really fun - I wish I had one more weekend to finish it!

[Metropolis Man]

This event is now closed. I know for a fact that the annual Baby Boomer event is Nutella's favorite, so as if trying to beat her in any other event was not hard enough for us mere mortals, trying to best her in Baby Boomer...wowza. That's a tall order. Grats again, Nutella. You're having a fantastic year.

And thanks, as always, to all participants. Everyone is now free to discuss how they approached this event.

[Nutella]

Strategy is simple - Cooking.

I ignore every aspiration that is rolled, unless it is Mansion Baron or Fabulously Wealthy.  The rest takes too long to get whim points, so every one of my offspring cooks to 7000 whim points.  For the two fortune aspiration, I have dad create a SimRay (Science Career) then use SimRay on tall locker, which have a very good chance of turning into the very expensive refrigerator.

As for child stage, I use collecting (100 whim points for each collecting ones) and quick socials.  I didn't bother with working on childhood aspiration, again takes too long.  I can get 1000 whim points faster with collecting / social / emotional whims.

As for twins, it is all luck, not much you can do about it.  Even when both parents have fertility treatment, I still have many single birth.

[MissZoef]

Great and oh so simple strategy Nutella, I was doing almost all aspirations that they got and had a hard time with the mansion baron one. For that I let a lot of sims make paintings to earn money. I did notice with some aspirations I could easier just go for whims instead of trying to fulfill the aspirations. Thank you for sharing your strategy. I actually used the cooking thing for some of my sims, because the aspiration was too much hassle to do. Although I didn't think to use it all the time at all. :-)

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[Ginj]

Well done, Nutella! I also followed whims more than aspirations but it didn't occur to me to indulge their cooking whims!  It would have served me well given how essential the nanocan was for the household's finances!

[Nutella]

It's too much hassle to complete aspirations (other than the fortune ones), takes too long and the 1st and 2nd milestone usually don't give much whims. 

The MasterChef aspiration is the best, you get one emotional whim (blue ones) and 2 regular cooking whims (white ones) plus you can go as far as the last milestone for points.  The SimRay gun is best for fortune aspiration, just keep zapping those lockers and eventually you get those nice $13,000 worth of refrigerators.  I keep those on the lot for Mansion Baron, and only sell them when necessary for fabulously wealthy (get cash and buy violins, drag to inventory to sell).

For all other aspirations, just cook.  I lock each of the sim in their own room with oven/refrigerator/counter.  That way nobody goes in and nobody gets out.  You get at least 75 whim points from each meal you cook.  One blue whim (inspired) and one regular whim.

Group meal - worth 50 points
single meal - worth 25 points
excellent meal - worth 50 points
and sometimes you get stuff like breakfast scramble, worth 50 points

Cooking a meal doesn't take more than 1 sim hour, most of the time is 30-45 mins per meal, that's at least 75 points per sim hour.

Compare that to some of the other aspiration, for example:
practice music for 6 hours -- only worth 75 points ..... I can get 75 points in one hour with just cooking.
write 2 books, 75 points.  This one is worst, 2 books takes like 8-9 hours to write, only 75 points.
plus all the other skills are very hard to level compared to cooking, even if you manage to get to milestone 3 or 4 where all the big whim points are, it takes you forever to get to skill level 10 for that 1500 points.

So yes, forget about all the aspirations and just cook.  Quite boring but oh well, it works.

Well done, Nutella! I also followed whims more than aspirations but it didn't occur to me to indulge their cooking whims!  It would have served me well given how essential the nanocan was for the household's finances!

Nanocan not worth it, $10 per dish?  I just buy regular trash can and just dump all food in it.  The nanocan too much work for me since sometimes I have 3 sims cooking simultaneously.  Use Simray for money, best and fastest way to get money.

[Ginj]

Nanocan not worth it, $10 per dish?  I just buy regular trash can and just dump all food in it.  The nanocan too much work for me since sometimes I have 3 sims cooking simultaneously.  Use Simray for money, best and fastest way to get money.

Actually the nanocan gives $10 per dish per Sim in household, so in a full house, $80 per dish is a decent chunk of change.

[oshizu]

@Nutella

Your strategy was so elegantly simple but thoughtfully conceived. *sighs
I liked how each kid got locked into their own kitchen and want to test out the SimRay, which I usually avoid because fires.

I used the approach of a Wonder Child Challenge, splitting up the logic-related and creative-related mentorable skills between parents.
The first batch of kids provided the 4 grandchildren for the Big Happy Family aspiration and so the parents had the Patriarch/Matriarch trait.
Moved out children were invited back to the house to help out with mentoring.
A cash-crop garden was started very early, so Fab Wealthy/Mansion Baron could be completed with the help of harvesting, painting, and our old friend the camping mascot.
It required so much micro-managing, I actually got a stomach-ache and had to stop playing for two days.

I remember Nutella enthusing about cooking whims after the Pancakes challenge but could never get that far with them. (lack of effort?
One thing for sure, I really love the tournament challenges for all the new things they teach us!

P.S. I'm so frustrated with the difficulty of multiple births!
I had only one set of twins as well as one alien abduction resulting in twins. :-(

[MissZoef]

What does the camping mascot do to help complete the mansion baron? Your strategy was certainly very creative and you managed to get a great score :-D

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[oshizu]

@MissZoef

What does the camping mascot do to help complete the mansion baron? Your strategy was certainly very creative and you managed to get a great score :-D

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The father and one of his daughters crafted dozens of camping mascots and placed them on the roof (instead of selling them), to boost the household worth quicker.
The mascots could later be sold for Fab Wealthy. Only the mother (and one of the kids) painted.

[Jaynewillis]

Interesting!